Wise Quotes

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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing… — Sophocles
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. — Laozi
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man… — Seneca the Younger
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. — Sophocles
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. — Jerome K. Jerome
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to… — Maya Angelou
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. — Solomon
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… — Karl Jaspers
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands. — Samuel Johnson
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between… — Zoroaster
He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove. — Paulo Coelho
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a… — Unknown Author
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men… — Sophocles
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… — Thomas Hobbes
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.… — David Hume
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them… — Maimonides
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters — Roberto Duran
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. — Hippocrates
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only… — Seamus Heaney
Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are… — Robert W. Floyd
The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost… — Ezra Taft Benson

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